Actor Alia Bhatt is clearly in no mood to wrap up her birthday celebrations just yet. This time, her padel gang swooped in to keep the party going, adding yet another chapter to the celebrations. Sharing a peek into the intimate get-together on social media, Alia paired the cheerful moments with a heartfelt note.

The actor expressed gratitude for her tribe of women for being there as she navigates Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)-related focus challenges.

Alia posted the pictures with a caption that read, “birthday celebrations continue with the best best mamas/ladies playing a lot of padel.”

“The last few weeks have been a bit challenging getting into my days with focus (hello adhd) but this morning was just everything… Also there’s just something about women showing up for you (and playing 2 hours of padel because you reaalllyyy wanted to!!) Feeling very grateful,” Alia added.

One image shows Alia leaning forward with a bright smile, cutting into a pastel-coloured cake placed on a glass table. The cake has soft rainbow layers and is decorated with light, fluffy frosting on top. She was seen dressed casually in a dark oversized sweatshirt and a pink-and-lavender baseball cap, with her hair left loose.

In one close-up selfie, Alia is seen inside a car, smiling softly while tipping the brim of her cap that reads “In My Padel Era”. In one image, Alia is seen posing with the whole group.

Social media users were delighted to catch a glimpse of the birthday celebrations, quickly flooding the comments section with messages of excitement. One mentioned, “Cutie”, with another writing, “Beautiful mamaa.” “Women showing up for women always,” one wrote, with one comment reading, “Endlessly celebrating you.”

Alia turned 33 on March 15. The actor had jetted off to Hong Kong with husband Ranbir Kapoor and their daughter Raha for a quiet getaway. Earlier this month, Alia posted a bunch of photos to give fans a glimpse of their brief trip. In the first photo, Alia, wearing a black outfit, smiled as Ranbir Kapoor kissed her cheek. The next photo showed Alia, Ranbir, and Raha seemingly inside Hong Kong Disneyland.

Alia was last seen in Jigra (2024). She also has spy thriller Alpha in the pipeline. The film is slated for release on July 10. Alpha was originally slated for release in Christmas 2025, but was moved to 17 April 2026. It is believed that the film has been pushed again to avoid a clash with Salman Khan’s Maatrubhumi, which was earlier titled Battle of Galwan, also releasing on April 17.

Aditya Dhar-directorial Dhurandhar 2 has been minting money worldwide. The spy thriller, starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, has crossed the $100-million mark worldwide in just six days, earning ₹575 crore net at home and over $27 million overseas. This includes a stellar $15-million run in North America. However, despite this mania, critics from around the world are unimpressed. Even as reviews back home are largely positive, Dhurandhar The Revenge has copped its fair share of criticism abroad.

Writing for the New York Times, Nicolas Rapold says, “The music feels less like punchy needle-drops than the background to gaming, which one first-person-shooter flourish evokes. The first installment’s critics might think this sequel further desensitizes viewers to violence along national or religious lines. It’s a movie of the current moment, which isn’t exactly a comfort.”

In her review for Movies We Texted About, Sarah Manvel is even more scathing. “By the end it’s downright routine for someone to be beat up, chained, stabbed, doused with gasoline, shot and then set on fire in order to be killed. The brutality and gore is so serious that the use of Rasputin by Boney M in one frankly racist sequence is not actually funny. The entire experience is sociopathic,” she writes.

“Dhurandhar: The Revenge mainly cares about trying to outdo 2025’s Dhurandhar in being bloated, repetitive, and showing twisted and vile murders with hateful rhetoric about certain ethnicities. The movie has a lot of high-budget spectacles in the action scenes, but the movie’s dramatic scenes are weak and have shallow characters. Dhurandhar: The Revenge is just an empty excuse to show a fictional and fanatically jingoistic and sadistically violent version of real-life historical events,” writes Carla Hay for Culture Mix.

Yet, despite the negative reviews, Dhurandhar 2 has continued to mint money, even in the West. Despite no release in the Gulf, the film has already amassed $27 million overseas. In the US, it was the second-highest-grossing film in its opening weekend, behind only Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary. Talking about its box office success, Sarah Manvel wonders, “There is so little enjoyment to be found in Dhurandhar The Revenge that it’s hard to fathom as to why audiences are flocking to see all this horror. Is the real world so awful that our only joy is watching people we’re supposed to hate suffering six different ways before they die?”